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UK
/ɹˈædəld/
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ADJECTIVE
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showing the wearing effects of overwork or care or suffering
looking careworn as she bent over her mending
her face was drawn and haggard from sleeplessness
shocked to see the worn look of his handsome young face
that raddled but still noble face -
used until no longer useful
worn-out shoes with flapping soles
battered trumpets and raddled radios
How To Use raddled In A Sentence
- The double nosewheel straddled the slots in the deck where the shuttle ran. THE SHADOWS OF POWER
- He spun a chair around and straddled it as he sat down, folding his arms across the wrought iron back.
- She pulled herself onto the bed and straddled her legs over his waist leaning forward to kiss his neck.
- According to F&F Foods, the current manufacturer of Sen Sen®, the candy straddled olfactive and gustative categorization at its inception and “In keeping with its perfumery roots, it was on the market list for many years as a cosmetic.” Breath Perfumes
- And not only the punters: TV's Angular Ex-England Fast Bowler Punditry Eminence could be seen holding court in raddled picnic pose, a tiny plastic Viking hat on his head. Sozzled - how English cricket got lost in drink | Barney Ronay
- As there be tides in the affairs of men which taken at the flood lead on to fortune, so there be waves which straddled at the proper time will bear a Halliwell on their niveous crest to the dizzy heights of fame, quicker'n the nictitation of a thomas-cat. The Complete Works of Brann the Iconoclast, Volume 10
- As the rope passes underneath your feet, lunge your left leg forward and your right foot backward so that your feet are straddled about a stride's length apart.
- Dad is a crofter and a raddled drunk, who has an accident with a sheep that puts him in bed for a few days.
- And he said there was another camel with two humps, and he was created for riding, and was called a dromedary, and when ye rode him, ye sat at your ease between the two humps, which made a soft saddle, just like an arm-chair ye straddled on, only without arms. For Fortune and Glory A Story of the Soudan War
- She steals the show as Billie Tricks, the raddled night-club hostess.